Neither Clinton nor Trump, according to the poll, has successfully won over their base.
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Donald Trump leads Hillary Clinton by 5 percent in OH, a key swing state, according to a Bloomberg Politics poll released Wednesday.
The NBC News/Survey Monkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll found Democratic presidential nominee Clinton with a mere four-point lead on Trump, 48 per cent to 44 per cent.
In the Quinnipiac University poll, Clinton is at 41%, Trump at 39%, Libertarian Party nominee Gary Johnson at 13% and Green Party nominee Jill Stein was at 4% with likely voters.
Still, voters in OH are roughly split on which candidate shares their values, with 44% saying Trump does, 41% Clinton and a sizable 13% saying neither of them does.
“Priority one for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump as the election looms: lure the cynical, disaffected, downright disgusted electorate into their camp”. But most Americans will have the option to vote for either of the two third-party candidates. The findings continue what has been a general tightening in the race after Clinton emerged with sizable leads both nationally and in swing states in the weeks following the Democratic National Convention. In Florida, likely voters split 47 per cent for Trump to 44 per cent for Clinton. “States are in play that no Republican has ever come close to winning”, Trump told his cheering supporters in Ohio. But Trump is ahead of Clinton with men and has 48% of the male vote to Clinton’s 34%.
The poll was conducted Friday through Monday and could possibly serve be the first indicator of Clinton’s turbulent weekend.
Today, the tide has turned, new KSN polling shows.
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The pollster characterized the shift as a “a complete transformation”. Trump leads by 21 points in the Greater Wichita area, which includes Sedgwick and 63 surrounding counties. Last month, Trump warned that the election might be “rigged” against him, saying “we may have people vote 10 times”. Voters focused on education vote overwhelmingly for Clinton. Trump leads by 23 points in military households, the survey said.
